Tesla and China Could Complete Gigafactory 3 by March, 2019

The investors cite news media accounts placing Musk in the company of Boucher, and rapper Azealia Banks, around the time of the tweet. Tesla built an entire general assembly line in 3 weeks when they were under pressure to increase Model 3 production.

Elon Musk's lawyer is hoping to prevent Tesla shareholders from bringing the company CEO's former romantic partner into a lawsuit related to his disastrous tweet about taking Tesla private.

Concerns about the shrinking USA tax credit and Tesla's decision to cut prices by United States dollars 2,000 to partially offset the lower incentive sent the automaker's shares plunging 9.7 percent during the first two trading days of the year. The deadline of reduced tariff would end on March 2nd, and after that, the tariff on U.S. made autos on China would revert back to 40 percent, instead current 15 percent.

Tesla signed a preliminary agreement in July with the Shanghai government previous year to build the 500,000-unit factory in the Chinese city.

"Affordable cars must be made on same continent as customers", Musk said in another tweet.

"Shanghai Giga production of Model 3/Y will serve greater China region", Musk added in another one.

Analysts have said production in China would allow Tesla to avoid such tariffs, which already have caused a spike in the price of the cars that Tesla now imports to the Chinese market. While there is no official announcement on the regions the factory will cater to (except China of course), you can expect cars from this factory rolling out to other Asian markets as well, most likely India. "This is going to get extremely ugly.Elon will learn very soon who is more powerful of us two".

The so-called Gigafactory would also be China's first wholly foreign-owned vehicle plant, a reflection of China's broader shift to open up its auto market even amid the whipsawing trade war.

Tesla plans to produce its Model 3 and Model Y cars in the initial phase of production at the Shanghai plant, with an annual capacity of 250,000 vehicles.

Musk tweeted ahead of the formal start of construction of the firm's first Chinese plant.

China is the largest market for electric vehicles, and most forecasters predict EV sales in the country will accelerate rapidly as the government drives toward a goal of 100 percent electric vehicles by 2030.

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